In the February 2024 Art Diary, the Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of Alison Lapper, Monia Sjöö and various group exhibitions, including shows at Cross Lane Projects, Drawing Room and The William Morris Gallery.
1 February 2024
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2023, an exclusive exploration of influential figures reshaping the contemporary art and cultural landscape.
28 December 2023
Officials at Glasgow Museums have disclosed that a significant sculpture by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin has mysteriously vanished.
22 October 2023
The October art diary features several artists I have interviewed or featured previously who have work on display this month.
2 October 2023
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has announced Hauser & Wirth and Apalazzo Gallery in Italy will now represent the artist.
5 September 2023
Grayson Perry, the Turner Prize-winning artist and broadcaster has received his knighthood in a ceremony conducted by Prince William at Windsor Castle yesterday.
29 June 2023
The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions.
8 May 2023
The Luce Center for the Arts & Religion is presenting ‘In League with Devils’ by Michael Petry, an exhibition exploring forgotten gods, resurrected rituals & queer desire.
25 April 2023
When Garry Fabian Miller was 19 years old, he stepped out onto the balcony of his flat in Clevedon and looked across the Severn Estuary towards the coastline of Wales.
15 March 2023
Artists from around the world will exhibit in venues and spaces throughout the city and at Factory International’s much-anticipated new home.
14 March 2023
Phyllida Barlow was a much-loved teacher at the Slade for nearly half a century. She had several illustrious students, including… Read More
13 March 2023
The artist and filmmaker Sir John Akomfrah RA will is to represent Great Britain at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024
24 January 2023
Works by twenty contemporary artists gifted by the Royal Academy of Arts to Queen Elizabeth II to mark the Platinum Jubilee have gone on display today at The Queen’s Gallery
12 January 2023
*UPDATED*
Artlyst has put together a month-by-month guide of the best of the London art exhibitions coming in 2023.
2 January 2023
Sonia Boyce Venice Pavilion Comes To Turner Margate – Clémentine Schneidermann Wins Taylor Wessing Prize
26 October 2022
After reading Kwasi Kwarteng’s book ‘Ghosts of Empire’, I was struck by the spectre of colonialism and imperialism
21 July 2022
Les Lalanne, the late French wife and husband artistic duo, are the dreamers who re-enchant.
23 May 2022
The Delfina Foundation has announced the death of its founder, Delfina Entrecanales CBE, at the age of 94. Over the… Read More
3 April 2022
Upstairs, on the third floor of the Ashmolean, is a show that will quietly break your heart. Entitled Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (12 June 2022), this major exhibition of works drawn from the Ashmolean’s collections as well as international loans, spans Pissarro’s entire career.
31 March 2022
Rubens Samson and Delilah Is A Fake – Autumn Budget Arts Allocated £850m – Glasgow COP26 Indestructible Language Art Installation
28 October 2021
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Posthumously Wrap L’Arc de Triomphe – MacKenzie Scott Gives $2b Cultural Organisations – Robert Indiana Estate Reaches Legal Closure
16 June 2021
Jeff Koons has left his long term galleries Gagosian and David Zwirner to be exclusively represented by Pace.
27 April 2021
While living in Jordan as an Arabic student in 2014, Hannah Rose Thomas worked with UNHCR to organise art projects with Syrian refugees for an exhibition to commemorate World Refugee Day.
25 November 2020
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
2 October 2020
On the eve of the re-opening of museums around the UK, from nationals Tate and the V&A to Turner Contemporary and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the UK’s largest arts charity, Art Fund, today launched a campaign for museums, with the announcement of plans for a special edition of Art Fund Museum of the Year and a week celebrating museums, running from 12 October 2020.
23 July 2020
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has been announced as the artist to represent the UK at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2021.
12 February 2020
New works by Light and Space master James Turrell is to go on show at Pace London 6 Burlington Gardens 11 February to 27 March 2020.
18 January 2020
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hasn’t been seen for 70 years has been rediscovered and heads for the auction block at Christie’s in the new year. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury, painted in 1943 shows workers on a bank holiday with children playing cricket.
26 December 2019
If you want to take the temperature of the London art world, here are two places to do so. One is the show for Keith Tyson, at Hauser & Wirth. The other is an exhibition for Enrique Martinez Celaya at Blain/Southern. These two dealers rank very high amongst the international commercial spaces in London.
9 June 2019
Whatever happened to Anthony Caro? In Jonathan Jones’ new book about the history of British art from Hogarth to Banksy,… Read More
14 May 2019
Sir David Adjaye OBE will design the architecture for the first Ghana Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Arte 2019. It will take place under the patronage of Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and advised by Okwui Enwezer.
25 February 2019
There can be no doubt that Richard Long is one of the giants of British art. Or so a very impressive curriculum vitae would lead one to suppose. He is now in his early 70s. He made his reputation almost half-a-century ago, as what was then called a Land Artist
10 December 2018
